[libvirt] [Xen-devel] Opinions on removing the old, legacy libvirt Xen driver

[Dario Faggioli]

On Sun, 2016-11-20 at 23:37 +0100, Martin Kletzander wrote:
> 
> I'm not familiar with Xen to such detail, particularly with its
> history,
> but allow me to (hopefully) help you with the decision by saying that
> we
> dropped support for any QEmu older than 0.12.0 (released on December
> 2009).  And by that I don't mean that we stopped fixing bugs for
> those,
> but that libvirt now *mandates* version 0.12.0 or newer.  That is
> what
> is available in CentOS 6 and similar (or as Dan stated it "RHEL-6 era
> distros).  For others like me, who don't know when the Xen releases
> were
> made, I found out (for you) that it should be March 2011 for 4.1 and
> September that year for 4.2.  So I'm not even going to ask in which
> version xl/libxl was introduced.
>
FYI, xl was introduced in Xen 4.1:
https://wiki.xen.org/wiki/XL

Xen 4.1 was indeed released on 25th March 2011:
https://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Xen_4.1_Release_Notes

Xen 4.2 was released on 17 Sept _2012_:
https://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Xen_Project_Release_Features

Regards,
Dario
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Senior Software Engineer, Citrix Systems R&D Ltd., Cambridge (UK)
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